BILL NUMBER: AB 514	CHAPTERED  09/21/99

	CHAPTER   439
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 21, 1999
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 21, 1999
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   SEPTEMBER 3, 1999
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 31, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 25, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 17, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 17, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 6, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Thomson
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Aanestad, Dickerson, Jackson, and
Robert Pacheco)

                        FEBRUARY 18, 1999

   An act to amend Section 40106 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to solid waste.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 514, Thomson.  Solid waste:  biomass conversion.
   The existing California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989
regulates the handling and management of solid waste.  The act is
administered by the California Integrated Waste Management Board, and
requires the board to implement various programs related to the
management of solid waste.  The act requires each city, county, and
regional agency, if any, to develop a source reduction and recycling
element of an integrated waste management plan that includes a
prescribed implementation schedule showing how the city, county, or
regional agency will divert materials from solid waste disposal
through source reduction, recycling, and composting activities.  The
act defines biomass conversion as meaning the controlled combustion
of specified materials, when separated from other solid waste and
used for producing electricity or heat, but excludes, from that
definition, among other things, the controlled combustion of pulp or
paper materials.
   This bill would revise the definition of biomass conversion to
instead include the controlled combustion of nonrecyclable pulp or
nonrecyclable paper materials, as defined, and exclude the controlled
combustion of recyclable pulp or recyclable paper materials.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 40106 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   40106.  (a) "Biomass conversion" means the controlled combustion,
when separated from other solid waste and used for producing
electricity or heat, of the following materials:
   (1) Agricultural crop residues.
   (2) Bark, lawn, yard, and garden clippings.
   (3) Leaves, silvicultural residue, and tree and brush pruning.
   (4) Wood, wood chips, and wood waste.
   (5) Nonrecyclable pulp or nonrecyclable paper materials.
   (b) "Biomass conversion" does not include the controlled
combustion of recyclable pulp or recyclable paper materials, or
materials that contain sewage sludge, industrial sludge, medical
waste, hazardous waste, or either high-level or low-level radioactive
waste.
   (c) For purposes of this section, "nonrecyclable pulp or
nonrecyclable paper materials" means either of the following, as
determined by the board:
   (1) Paper products or fibrous materials that cannot be
technically, feasibly, or legally recycled because of the manner in
which the product or material has been manufactured, treated, coated,
or constructed.
   (2) Paper products or fibrous materials that have become soiled or
contaminated and as a result cannot be technically, feasibly, or
legally recycled.
